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Bored. Give me a good "Living room PC" distro

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  • reygle@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

    Points for something I've never tried.

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    Linux pretty much just doesn't work on TV. No platforms have Linux support, unfortunately.

    Bazzite, Chimera, Nobara all have a pretty sweet SteamOS-like distro, if you're after gaming and have AMD GPU.

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    • reygle@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

      Points for something I've never tried.

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      https://libreelec.tv/
      If you like Kodi this is the business. I have had it working with remotes, the biggest drawback for me was streaming services not supporting 4k on the Odroid N2+ I was trying to use.
      Plex worked great through Kodi, and that was my biggest use case.

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        @Reygle plasma-bigscreen.org/
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        This looks nice!

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          @Reygle plasma-bigscreen.org/
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          Okay this looks kinda neat, but the page says it "isn't available for public use yet"?
          More of a DE/tweak than a distro?

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          • algernon@lemmy.mlA [email protected]

            NixOS.

            It is good for everything, if you invest a little time[^1] into it.

            [^1]: Your entire life, lol.

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            Nix looks like a fun way to wild away 3 weeks, not entirely sure this is what I'm after for a living room TV box. 😄

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            • jodanlime@midwest.socialJ [email protected]

              https://libreelec.tv/
              If you like Kodi this is the business. I have had it working with remotes, the biggest drawback for me was streaming services not supporting 4k on the Odroid N2+ I was trying to use.
              Plex worked great through Kodi, and that was my biggest use case.

              reygle@lemmy.worldR This user is from outside of this forum
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              I'm a Plex guy so that part is appealing but I admit I mostly watch youtube in this scenario

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              • reygle@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                Okay this looks kinda neat, but the page says it "isn't available for public use yet"?
                More of a DE/tweak than a distro?

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                @Reygle it looks like you can build it and or use an rpi 4 build


                *secretly i just want more info on it myself :D*

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                • reygle@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                  I'm a Plex guy so that part is appealing but I admit I mostly watch youtube in this scenario

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                  Yeah, I'm not sure how well YouTube is going to run on Kodi, I've never actually tried it.
                  If you have another Linux box around you could install Kodi and try it pretty quickly.

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                  • ulrich@feddit.orgU [email protected]

                    Linux pretty much just doesn't work on TV. No platforms have Linux support, unfortunately.

                    Bazzite, Chimera, Nobara all have a pretty sweet SteamOS-like distro, if you're after gaming and have AMD GPU.

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                    Linux doesn't work on TV

                    proceeds to name 3 distros that not only work but do gaming

                    My brother in Christ…

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                      Linux doesn't work on TV

                      proceeds to name 3 distros that not only work but do gaming

                      My brother in Christ…

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                      I mean could have just read the next sentence and that would have cleared up your confusion...

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                      • reygle@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                        Points for something I've never tried.

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                        NUC? Check http://minisforum.com/.

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                          NUC? Check http://minisforum.com/.

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                          LOVE Minisforum- but I'm looking for an interesting distro, not interesting hardware to run it on. 🙂

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                            NUC? Check http://minisforum.com/.

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                            That appears to be hardware, not a distro

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                            • algernon@lemmy.mlA [email protected]

                              NixOS.

                              It is good for everything, if you invest a little time[^1] into it.

                              [^1]: Your entire life, lol.

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                              I daily drive NixOS and use it in many other situations. However, I'm also a systems engineer and it's the distro I use for managing all the environments.

                              I'm sure it was a joke(ish), but definitely not for the light-hearted or fairweather penguins.

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                              • ulrich@feddit.orgU [email protected]

                                Linux pretty much just doesn't work on TV. No platforms have Linux support, unfortunately.

                                Bazzite, Chimera, Nobara all have a pretty sweet SteamOS-like distro, if you're after gaming and have AMD GPU.

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                                I think you misunderstood, hence the downvotes.

                                OP is asking what a good distro is for a media center PC, as in the PC's video output will be connected to the TV's video input. At which point Linux does not give two shits.

                                Sounds like you thought they wanted to stream/cast via some TV app or something, but that just sounds like a nightmare and I'm not sure that anyone would even want to try to do that. Just run Linux and use the TV as a big monitor, be done with smart TV garbage.

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                                • reygle@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                                  Points for something I've never tried.

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                                  I would have thought open/libreElec would have worked.

                                  other mentionables centered around media are AVLinux , Ubuntu studio, and dynebolic.

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                                    Points for something I've never tried.

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                                    Puppy Linux

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                                      I would have thought open/libreElec would have worked.

                                      other mentionables centered around media are AVLinux , Ubuntu studio, and dynebolic.

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                                      dynebolic

                                      Ooh neat there's one I've never heard of

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                                        I daily drive NixOS and use it in many other situations. However, I'm also a systems engineer and it's the distro I use for managing all the environments.

                                        I'm sure it was a joke(ish), but definitely not for the light-hearted or fairweather penguins.

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                                        Please tell me more about your work and how you use Nix in it. I'm interested.

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                                        • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneA [email protected]

                                          That appears to be hardware, not a distro

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                                          Oh, sorry, my bad.

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